The American Feed Industry Association and FAMI-QS, the Quality and Safety System for Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures, will host the workshop Awareness in Feed Safety Program: Solutions for the Specialty Feed and Mixture Industry September 25 - 26, 2012, in Rosemont, Illinois. The program will offer useful information that will immediately impact decision making in day-to-day operations for feed industry stakeholders.

In response to the current state of the feed industry, the task of understanding and keeping up with new regulatory requirements can be challenging. This interactive, comprehensive training covers the regulations of the FAMI-QS program in an easy-to-understand format that will help companies achieve certification. AFIA’s International Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program, a third-party-verified program for ingredient facilities, also works under the same rules and scope of FAMI-QS.  

The FAMI-QS certification program is benchmarked against European Commission Feed regulations and allows for exporters and importers to gain entry to new international markets with greater ease and success. The two-day workshop will cover topics including feed safety management, the global importance and implementation of FAMI-QS, EU regulations and compliance, and crisis management and audit planning.

Daniel Uthe, Eurofins Food Safety Systems, and Keith Epperson, AFIA, will serve as trainers for the program.

Accommodation 

For a hotel reservation, contact:

Sheraton Chicago O’Hare

6501 North Mannheim Road 

Rosemont, IL 60018 

Airport shuttle:  +1 (847) 699-6300 

Reservations:  1-888-627-8117

Room Block name: American Feed Industry Association

Block rate: $149 p/n

Cut-off date: August 31, 2012

For additional questions on this event, contact AFIA’s vice president of manufacturing and training, Keith Epperson at kepperson@afia.org or  +1 (703) 558-3568.

To register  click here(PDF)

Download the conference brochure (PDF) from the link below.